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Topic: Project II: Final Fantasy IV (Read 169883 times)

If you're looking for an alternative name for Pray, how about Faith? Can't remember if that name's used in the JP version or not, as I've played so many versions of FF4 at this point, a couple of them I'm playing simultaneously now (this, Combat Boost, and the constant testing of my own project).

No, but thank you. This does remind me, now I remember why I wanted to keep it as Pray to begin with: the Tower of Prayer. I'm not keeping it as the House of Wishes, that's dumb. Also, EarthBound got away with the concept of prayer.

Anyway, does anyone think it's a bit odd to have Revive Potion and Revivify as items, or no? It kind of bothers me, but not really enough to undo anything. I mean, Revivify is eight letters and Revive is six, so at a glance, you'd know what to use...

Well in FF6, Mega Flare was called Sun Flare. Also, the only reason EarthBound got away with Prayer was because you needed it to beat Giygas. FF6 called it Health but that's too long. Also a alternate name for Bacchus's Wine would be Nectar as DSOP called it. Hermes's Sandals could be called Dash Boots. And Mindblow could be Trance as FF1 called it.

Those are all pretty good suggestions Cavery. I especially like the use of Nectar since Wine is the "Nectar of the Gods", quite clever and some good call backs to FFI with Trance and Dash Boots makes a good deal of sense.

I like the Nectar and Trance suggestions. Not sure about Dash Boots. They'd need to be DashBoot or DashShoe. I kind of re-imagined Hermes and Bacchus as small statues of the respective gods that the characters use, if anyone's wondering why I didn't think of alternatives for them. And I'm going to say no to SunFlare because it was MegaNuke in FFII US, and Nuke was in FFI and FF Legend. I'll keep Trance and Nectar in mind for the next release, however. No immediate new release because we just did one.

No, we've been over this multiple times: I hate abbreviations with a burning passion. That spells out neither Phoenix nor Down fully. If it's enough of a problem that people report they're confusing Revive Potions and Revivifies, I'll change Revivify to Cross.

Um... What was the rationale behind nixing Life in favor of Revive to begin with?

If you remember, the Potions in FFII US were named after the spells: Cure1 Potion, Cure2 Potion, Cure3 Potion, Life1 Potion, Heal Potion. I didn't think the spells and Potions needed to have the exact same names. Revive Potion comes from the English FFII beta, Shadow of Palakia.

I think Revive is fine, and perfectly descriptive of what it does.I was just throwing out an alternative since there seem to be some doubts.But if people can use Fire and Fira in the newer FFs without getting confused, it should be fine as is.

Phoenix Feather would be a closer interpretation. Looking at images from FF XI and other games, it's a feather from the tail of the Phoenix, though frankly I think down (as in the soft feathers of a bird) is a fantastic translation that captures both the meaning and has a whimsical nature to it.